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Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

Saturday Review: Sunset Song, Funny Girl, Edna O'Brien, Big Bang Data, What a Performance

Sunset Song, Funny Girl, Edna O'Brien, Big Bang Data, What a Performance

05/12/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Sunset Song, Funny Girl, Edna O'Brien, Big Bang Data, What a Performance

Sunset Song, Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, Edna O'Brien, Big Bang Data, What a Performance

Featuring Terence Davies' Sunset Song; Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl; Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs; Big Bang Data exhibition; and BBC4's What a Performance.

Sunset Song is Terence Davies' first film for a decade - telling Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of northern Scottish farming and family before and after the First World War.
Sheridan Smith takes the role of actress Fanny Brice in the first London production of Funny Girl for 50 years. Made famous by Barbra Streisand on stage and screen, they're big shoes to fill and the current run of shows is already sold out, is it any good?
Edna O'Brien's latest novel The Little Red Chairs places a major war criminal in a small Irish village and ghastly violence comes with him
Big Bang Data is an exhibition at London's Somerset House which explores how artists are trying to depict the welter of data that is out there, growing all the time.
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein look at the world of popular British entertainment before TV in the BBC4 series What a Performance.

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